Sociology last unit

Question 1

Triangle theory of love

Answer 1

passion(infatuation) + intimacy(liking) + commitment(empty love)
romantic love: passion+intimacy
companionate: intimacy + commitment
fatuous love: passion + commitment

Question 2

family

Answer 2

2 or more people who consider themselves related by marriage, blood, or adoption

Question 3

nuclear family

Answer 3

a family of a husband, wife, child(ren)

Question 4

extended family

Answer 4

a family where relatives living with parents and children

Question 5

blended family

Answer 5

a family where other people once used to be a part of another family

Question 6

marriage

Answer 6

a groups approved mating arrangements, marked by a ritual

Question 7

endogamy

Answer 7

practice of marrying within one’s group

Question 8

exogamy

Answer 8

practice of marrying outside one’s group

Question 9

homogamy

Answer 9

people with similar characteristics to marry one another

Question 10

functionalist perspective
families fulfill 6 key functions:

Answer 10

economic production
socialization of children
care of the sick and aged
recreation
sexual control
reproduction

Question 11

dysfunction in nuclear families:

Answer 11

isolation and overload

Question 12

conflict theory perspective
2 overarching claims about family

Answer 12

marriage and family roles reflect the basic social inequality that run through society.
gender inequality and conflict is reflected through the division of labor at home.

Question 13

division of labor

Answer 13

women expected to do home chores and child care, but recent increase in male participation (1960 x2 for housework and x3 for childcare)
women still do vast majority of housework 70%

Question 14

changes in American families

Answer 14

less children live with 2 parents
increase in childless couples
decreased fertility desire
rising marriage age
increase in cohabitation
increase in divorce (functionalist says linked to dysfunction in family, conflict theory says linked to women’s rights and independence, symbolic says ideas, expectations and cultural meaning of marriage)

Question 15

sex

Answer 15

corporeal (body)- assigned at birth

Question 16

gender

Answer 16

social- socialization is largely tied to assumed sex
behaviors or attitudes society associates with masculinity or femininity
gender gets mapped onto sex

Question 17

gender typing

Answer 17

gender based expectations and behaviors

Question 18

gender stratification

Answer 18

unequal access to power, property, and prestige based on gender

Question 19

patriarchy & its origin

Answer 19

men as a group dominating women as a group- henslin
human reproduction: treating women as possession, she stayed home with child while men hunted, travel, controlled
hand to hand combat: direct conflict disadvantaged women, led to male domination
not conclusive or exhaustive theories

Question 20

examples of patriarchy

Answer 20

education: 2/3 of global illiterate are women
politics: women 24% of global legislative bodies
pay: in US, Latina make 58%, black women 65%, white women 82% of white men’s earning
violence: sexual violence, domestic abuse

Question 21

mixed messages

Answer 21

Ruth sidel
media presents ideas of successful femininity or womanhood, often middle to upper class, present women’s success as individual initiative rather than social or economic conditions